Bush to sell nukes to India, fighter planes to Pakistan

The agreement, announced July 18 after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Bush at the White House, upends decades-old nonproliferation rules and will require changes in U.S. law and international policy.

With the new deal, the United States in effect accepts India as a nuclear-weapon state.

While at the same time, they threaten sanctions and invasion against Iran for developing nuclear facilities, but it’s not like India has always been a staunch ally. And even if they were, why India and why now?